Education mediates microstructural changes in bilateral hippocampus

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 282-289

  Piras, Fabrizio ^a   Cherubini, Andrea ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,b   Spalletta, Gianfranco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive reserve; DTI; Education; Hippocampus; Neural reserve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651428393     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21018     Document Type: Article

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